Over the past two years, from the office window from where this project was conceived, an empty space with people passing through unconnected has been the view. People seemed hypnotized with productivity -- efficient, moving fast, walking head-first.

Birdseye view photographs have been used by sociologists as a way to take a macro look at peoples social patterns. To document pattern changes in the social public space near and around the AgoraPhone sculpture, a camera was set up a taking low resolution (to retain anonymity of the people) photographs from the point of view of the office window above mentioned. This camera captured still frames every few seconds for periods of time before, during, and after AgoraPhones installation and reception.

The pictures shown here were taken during the second week of the installation.

There occurred two distinct changes in the space. Firstly, as expected, people who have never spoken with each other gather at the sculpture in conversation groups. The second major change in the physical public social space also occurs quite frequently - groups of people hang out nearby and call from cell phones while watching people at the sculpture.